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MONOECIA MONADELPHIjV 



This species iS;, I believe^ universally known along the sea-coast of Caro- 

 lina and Georgia as the spruce or short-leaved pine. The name of yellow 

 pine is, with us, exclusively applied to the Pinus Palustris. The timber of 

 this tree is not valued. Indeed, I know ndt that I have ever seen it applied 

 to any use whatever. This, however, may be caused by tlie abundance 

 which we possess of the very superior Pinus Palustris. 



Grows along the §ea-coast of CaroHna and Georgia only in the most fer- 

 tile soils — becoming there a tree of great magnitude. 



Flowers April- 



s' RiGlDA. 



P. foliis teVnis^ vagi- 

 nis abbreviatis; ameu- 

 tis masciilis eiecto-in- 

 cumbentibus; slrobilis 

 ovatis^ sparsis vel ag- 



Leaves by threes, 

 the sheaths short; ste- 

 rile aments incumbent 

 nearly erect; cones o- 

 vate, scattered or clus- 



gre 



atiSj 



aculeis reflexis. 



squamarum tered^ spines 



of the 



scales reflexed* 



Sp. pi. 4. p. 498. Pursh, 2 p. 643. Nutt. 2, p. 223. 

 Icon. Mich. arb. for. p. 89. 



3 



A large tree, growing sometmies from 70 — 100 feet in height, and 

 in diameter. Leaves 4 — 6 inches long. Cones generally clustered 

 inches long, the scales with acute rigid spines, and closing strongly on each 

 other. 



This tree is not very common in the low country of Carolina, where it 

 generally grows intermingled whh trees of othfft" kinds not forming forests 

 exclusively of pine. The variety with clustered cones is very conspicuous; 

 and if it really belongs to this species, appears also to vary in having its 

 scales more loosely imbricate. 



Michaux remarks, that on the ridges of the Mountains this pine is some- 

 times exclusively found for many miles — that the cones in such situations 

 are solitary and the tree small. The timber is inferior to that of several 

 other species. 



Flowers April. 



I 



4. Serotina. Mich. 



P. foliis elongatis; a- 

 mentis masculis erecto 

 incumbentibus; strobilis 



Leaves 



long 



J 



threes; sterile aments 



incumbent nearly erect; 

 sphaBroideo - ovatis, | cones spheroidal-ovate, 



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